Željko Glasnović
Major general Željko Glasnović | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Željko Glasnović |
| Born | February 24, 1954 Zagreb, PR Croatia |
| Allegiance | Canadian Army French Foreign Legion Croatian National Guard Croatian Defence Council Croatian Army |
| Battles/wars | Gulf War Croatian War of Independence Bosnian War |
| Spouse(s) | not married |
| Children | no children |
| Other work | Croatian Parliament (MP) |
Željko Glasnović (born 24 February 1954) is former Croatian military officer and politician. He is member of Independents for Croatia.
Biography
He was born in Zagreb in 1954 in a family of Kosovo Croats. Hih family emigrated to Canada in 1962, he became a member of the Canadian Army in which he served for five years. The next year and a half he spent in the French Foreign Legion. He fought in the Gulf war.
Following escalation of the Croatian war for independence, he returned to homeland and joined Croatian National Guard in 1991.[1] He was a military commanding officer in Lika, but after the Fall of Vukovar in November 1991, he was moved to Tomislavgrad, where he joined Battalion "Zrinski". He was severely wounded around the heart in the Battle of Kupres. His soldiers transported him from Bugojno to Franciscan monastery in Rama. The next two months he spent in a Split hospital but he escaped and returned to the Kupres front. He was known as a very strict commander demanding a high level of discipline.[1]
In 1994, he became commanding officer of 1st brigade of Croatian Defence Council. He participated in Cincar operation and Operation Storm. President Stipe Mesić retired him in 2000.[1]
Politics
He was not politically active until Croatian parliamentary election, 2015. He was elected into the Croatian Parliament as a member of Patriotic Coalition in IX district, reserved for Croatian diaspora. During his first MP term (2015-2016) in 11th electoral district, he was member of the Committee on Croats outside the Republic of Croatia, War Veterans Committee, Interparliamentary Co-operation Committee and Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the NATO.[2] Although he was elected on HDZ list, he was not a member of the party.
For the 2016 elections he formed independent list and won one seat in Croatian Parliament representing the diaspora.[3] Presently, he joined Independents for Croatia.
He is calling upon lustration and decommunisation of Croatia.
References
- ^ a b c Večernji list Biographies: Željko Gasnović, retired general Večernji list, published 1 December 2016, accessdate 9 February 2018
- ^ Željko Glasnović Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
- ^ Croatian Parliamentary elections, 2016 - Results, district XI (diaspora) State Election Committee of the Republic of Croatia. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
